We are now entering my store. And as we got in the store I steeled myself.
And as we did we were greeted by the workers inside.
"Welcome customers, what can we do for you today?"
"Oh we are here for the examination so please don't mind us. Also we'll buy something if it somehow catches our eyes."
"Okay please tell our personnels if you have any questions about the products we have."
"Sure, thank you. Everyone let's go."
Senior James then told us to continue doing our work.
"The owner is here. Welcome back!"
"""The owner is here?"""
"Owner!"
As I was trying to not get myself noticed by the workers here. I heard the voice of the triplets. And out of nowhere Leona tackled me.
"Hey Leona, you're still not yet done with your homework!"
Then came Lina as she tried to get her off of me.
"Lina it's okay why not just leave her to me."
"Blegh." Suddenly Leona sticks her tongue out at her sister.
"Why you."
"Leona, that's not nice."
"Hmph."
"Hey, stop making things difficult for the owner. And owner."
"Yes?"
"I know you are trying to be nice but can you please stop spoiling them."
"Ahaha. Sorry about that. So what's going on? I think I heard something about homework?"
"Yes. Just now both Lisa and Luna were done with their homework and we're waiting for Leona to be done. Until Luna senseed you were here so Leona headed here fast."
"Oh so that's what happened. Then it's fine for now let me take care of the three for now how about it?"
"Haaa, fine but you really have to stop spoiling them."
"Okay, okay. "
Afterwards I introduced the triplets to the others and they seem to take a liking to them.
"I didn't think you owned such a famous store.
Yeah well things happened."
"No wonder you seem familiar. I saw you during my argument against that annoying idiot."
"Oh yeah that did happen." I then acted to have only noticed. I mean it is awkward after all we had some conflict with each other.
But now that I look at it he doesn't seem to be more hostile than he was before I wonder why?
"Owner, owner."
"What is it, Leona?"
"What's that for?"
Leona asked as she pointed at the magic board in my hand.
"Oh this? This is something I need to use for my current exam."
"Oooohhhh can I try?"
"Sorry Leona, but I can't."
"Eehhh?"
"Well when you go to school you can use something like this. Not just that you can use a lot of amazing stuff at school."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Me too, me too."
"Me three, me three."
Suddenly Lisa and Luna came and said that they too want to go to school.
"Well then you have to work hard and study so how about it Leona do you wanna finish your homework?"
"Hmmm? Okay I'll try."
"Good now go along, we'll play later after you're done doing your homework."
"""Okay."""
"Bye, Bye owner."
With that I said goodbye to the kids.
"Oh wow you're so good at handling kids."
"Well I am a big brother myself."
"Heeehh. Can you tell me about them?"
"Ohh me too, what are they like?"
Suddenly Kim and Kurt asked me about my siblings but aren't they sibling themselve? Or is it just because they are close in age?
"Hey you three stop dawdling around and finish up what you're doing."
"Oh right!"
We continued to do our work answering the magic board, and it was only until no more questions popped out that we stopped.
And what followed was a sudden question from Kurt.
"Hey, seniors, can I ask something?"
"Yeah what is it?"
"Well I am kind of confused. Why are there questions about these things even though they weren't in our past lessons?"
"Oh that's because the questions in the board are based on the books in the government records."
"Eh, then the questions here are all about books in the government records?"
"Yes, because of the help of the principal during the last incident he was given some privilege and access to the government's non-confidential records."
"Oh I see."
"But wouldn't that be difficult for us if we don't know some of them?*
"That's true, but don't worry the school will do something about it."
"Okay."
Hearing that I was quite intrigued. So my patent is really registered, that's good. And since it is being included in the questions for this exam does it mean that it would become a hit?
If so then I can finally live in my patent. And to finally stop the expansion plan.
Bam
As I was thinking that the door was suddenly forcefully opened
And the culprits were the twins Mika and Maki.
"Boss, you're here?!"
"Uh what's wrong you two."
"Uh well can we-"
"Boss it's terrible "
"Uh what is it?"
I tried to make sense of what they were trying to say. As they seem to have something going.
"They stole your idea!"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Maki, Mika please talk about it somewhere private."
"Oh Claire."
"Yeah I guess you're right."
"Let's go boss." They were so aggressive that they tried to pull me, but I stopped them.
"Umm can you wait for a bit. "
I then asked senior James for permission.
"Senior, can I talk with them for a moment?"
"Well yeah sure. We are done after all."
"Okay thank you so much."
"But don't forget we have to return tomorrow so please be back in time."
"Yeah I will."
With that, the others left and I followed Mika and Maki to my office.
"So what's the problem?"
"Hear us out boss."
"Earlier we went outside."
"This pig that we gave our reservation to last time was making a presentation."
"But what he showed is a project idea that you thought of.
"And?" Pig, who is it? Let's just listen for now.
"He announced that he made it even though it was your idea!"
Well technically it is from my world not really originally mine per say. But still I need money so I used ideas from my world for it.
"Hmm, what should we do?"
"We should sue, that's what!"
"Maki, easy there. We don't know the full story yet."
"Mika tried to ease her sister's temper as I was contemplating on what to do."
"We can't make a move yet it's too early." And we don't know why they are doing this. It may be a conspiracy like in those shows I watched.
"For now we will just watch what is going on and get as much evidence as we can."
"But boss."
"Stop. Right now the city is in the middle of restoration so we can't make a hasty move. I heard from people outside that crime is on the rise."
"Okay boss. We'll do our best to pin down that pig."
"Oh speaking about that. What do you mean we gave our reservation to him?"
"Well remember when we had a reservation before at a famous restaurant. We met with an arguing customer there and you helped two girls."
"Yeah sister Claire is right it was during that time."
"Oh I remember now. And what was the name of that guy again?"
"Well was it Frans something something ant."
No sis it is Fransisco Phil Anton."
"Oh yeah that's right, that's his name.
"Well then that's enough for now. Let's proceed to another matter."
"And what is that boss?"
"The prices are rising and I think this is going to be a problem for other people."
"Yeah that's true."
"But we won't have that problem though. We have a large supply in our storage."
"But that is not an excuse we can use."
"That's right, the supply might not last long."
"So are we gonna increase our prices boss?"
"Yes but also no at the same time. Only until the restoration ends."
"What do you mean?"
I then started explaining my plan to them. Telling them that we need to follow the trend but lower the price gradually by day or by week.
The plan is to make an illusion to our neighbors about the rise of our prices.
Not making them notice that we are making it affordable to the majority of the populace in the long run.
"I see we can do that."
"We could make an excuse saying that it is reaching its expiration date and that it is already old or things like the product are not up to standard."
"With that we can lower our prices without making it suspicious to our rivals."
"And they will not notice that we are already making a profit from the lower prices due to the items we have in stock already."
"But this could only be possible thanks to the owner's storage supplies' ability to preserve the goods."
"That's right, boss, you are amazing."
"Thanks." Well it is thanks to my studies in the academy about barrier systems and runes. Not to mention the memories I have in my past world.